Two church buildings were razed Sunday night (June 28) on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar after worship services. Suspected radical Muslims set the church buildings on fire [More]

She gets up early, traveling all day to teach Bible studies and lead worship services. She must remain unknown to keep the churches she works with safe. She does her work quietly, fearing persecution—or worse—if government officials learn what she is doing. [More]

But Christians are still a minority in this isolated region of the world, and persecution is a grave reality for anyone of the Christian faith. [More]

At approximately 9:15 a.m. on June 14, several dozen officials from the Municipal Bureaus of Religion and State Security broke into a house church in Zhengzhou City, Henan province, China, and arrested several believers, [More]

Pastor Shankar Hazra (55) and his wife Depali (45) were attacked by Muslims outside their home on the Chaksing Baptist church property in Gopalganj district, Bangladesh on January 6. [More]

Three Christians from two different families were arrested from their homes Wednesday morning (Jan. 21) and are being held without charges, sources told Compass. Authorities took Jamal Ghalishorani, 49, and his wife Nadereh Jamali from their home [More]

Orders issued on Jan. 5 had already forced many Christians meeting in residential homes or apartments to cease gathering for worship. Officials last week ordered several major Rangoon churches, including Wather Hope Church, Emmanuel Church and the Assemblies of God Church, to cease holding services [More]

Persecution will probably continue to intensify in the year 2009, as nations struggle through economic troubles and the Untied States inaugurates a new president. [More]

Rev Tanzeel Zafar, a young pastor with the Church of Pakistan who was kidnapped last Friday evening by two unidentified men from the city’s Cantonment area, was found on Sunday night alive but badly injured [More]

The murderous rioting sparked by Muslim attacks on Christians and their property on Nov. 28-29 left six pastors dead, at least 500 other people killed and 40 churches destroyed, according to church leaders. [More]